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Copyrighted

December 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Copyright, Patent, Trademark

. . . of late the PTO has been turning away dot-com trademark applications like unwanted junk mail . . .

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Patented Balls

January 2nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Patent, Popular, Trademark

Here’s a number for you: 1051. For you historically minded few, it is not the year that Britain was last invaded (1066), but rather the number of golf balls listed on the United States Golf Association’s List of Conforming Golf Balls.

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Patent Free Café

December 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Patent, Popular

There are no patents associated with this product anymore, but the espresso it makes rivals anything on the market.

There are no patents associated with this product anymore, but the espresso it makes rivals anything on the market.
There are no patents associated with this product anymore, but the espresso it makes rivals anything on the market.

There are no patents associated with this product anymore, but the espresso it makes rivals anything on the market.

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Patented Coffee

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Patent, Popular

The Nespresso machine, by everyone’s favorite Swiss uncle, Nestlé, chocolate maker to the universe.

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How Chocolate Saved the World

December 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Patent, Popular

Since the end of February 2006, the Zurich-based food giant Nestlé, has owned patent on genetically modified coffee plants allegedly providing an improved solubility of the coffee powder

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Crazy Patents

December 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Patent, Popular, Technology

All women should have 16 inch waists like Molly Bloom before she developed a taste for cream puffs. And men should, correspondingly . . . .

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Patented Killers

December 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Arcana, Popular

In Shakespeare’s King Richard III the English monarch memorably shouts out “Off with his head!!” in the Tower of London after accusing former ally Lord Hastings of plotting to destroy him, a cry which finds its mate in modern times in the crazed screeching of Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen.

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